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perforce

[per-fawrs, -fohrs] / pərˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs /


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That was a closed-loop cemetery system: the nonnative Americans living here were perforce Spanish and Mexican, and Catholic, and often buried in mission graveyards.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Methane is a carbon-based molecule, so many of the ingredients for life are perforce there.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2023

What David Doniger, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, calls a “one-two punch of irrefutable science and irrefutable experience” has clearly raised public awareness and, perforce, the political temperature.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2019

And even when there is, it would tell you nothing, because the same number of people, perforce, bought.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2018

Kit would not have risen from her place at all, but Rachel, with a meaningful nudge, handed her a candle, and she had perforce to see her suitor to the door.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare




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